Re: Pro-drop was RE: Conlang collaboration
| From: | Muke Tever <mktvr@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 16, 2003, 13:21 |
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From: "Tristan" <kesuari@...>
> Dan Sulani wrote:
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> > What exactly is meant by "pro-drop"?
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> A tendency to drop unnecessary subject pronouns that are implied in
> inflexions on the vowel.
Actually I think it's just a tendency to consider subject pronouns unnecessary,
whether or not the inflections encode it--Japanese is pro-drop without personal
inflections at all, IIRC.
*Muke!
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